FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 South Africa

The FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 is coming to South Africa as a prelude to the 2010 Soccer World Cup, so get your tickets!

South Africa will be hosting the FIFA 2009 Confederations Cup from 14 June – 28 June 2009.

The Confederations Cup is traditionally a build -up to the World Cup and is hosted by the country that will be staging the World Cup the following year.

To keep on track with the scores, teams and host cities you can download and print your very own copy of the 2009 Confederations Cup Match Schedule.

The cities hosting games during the 2009 Confederations Cup are also cities that will be hosting games during the Soccer World Cup in 2010. The host cities and their stadiums are:

Johannesburg (Ellis Park Stadium)
Pretoria (Loftus Versfeld Stadium)
Bloemfontein (Free State Stadium)
Rustenburg (Royal Bafokeng Stadium)

The soccer teams participating in the FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 are the national teams of South Africa, Italy, USA, Brazil, Iraq and Egypt.

2009 Confederations Cup match schedules per city:

Bloemfontein match schedule, Pretoria match schedule, Johannesburg match schedule and Rustenburg match schedule, or take a look at the Group A match schedule and the Group B match schedule.

In addition to these teams the winner of the UEFA Euro Cup 2008 and the winner of the 2008 OFC Nations Cup (Oceania) will also take part in the FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 in South Africa.

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Read the latest information on tickets for the 2009 Confederation Cup tickets.

MEDIA FRIENDLY WEB URL: For press we have created a url to use in print publications and web logs on the 2010 Soccer World Cup to publish, for example:

www.capetownmagazine.com/2010-google-earth

MEDIA DOWNLOAD: The stadiums for the 2009 Confederation Cup can be found on our automatically updating 2010 Google Earth Map